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The fighter who suffered a seizure following a vicious KO loss at OPLOT revealed that he would resume regular training in one month. Last weekend, a disturbing scene took place at an OPLOT qualifying tournament in Russia, where a fighter was ferociously knocked out and began seizing up for the better part of the next six minutes. The fighter, Firuz Hadibaev from Tajikistan, appears to have recovered from the vicious spinning back kick to the head, and released a statement clarifying the situatio read news >>

Saturday’s OPLOT event in Russia saw a fighter seize up following a KO loss. Watch the highly graphic video here. While one can expect to see some unorthodox incidents at regional MMA events, particularly in countries where no regulatory body exists to watch over the sport, few anticipated the harrowing scene that would unfold at the OPLOTqualifying tournament on Saturday afternoon. During the event, a fighter was hit with a spinning back kick to the head that separated him from his consciousnes read news >>

The first Bellator MMA event of 2015 was a memorable one, especially the main event. Go behind the scenes of Bellator 132 to see what Bellator’s cameras caught.Filed under: Bellator, Featured Videos, News, Videos read news >>

The very first Strikeforce show, in hindsight one of the most significant MMA events in U.S. history, from 2006, aired on Showtime Extreme on Thursday night. It was the first MMA event ever sanctioned in California, And it proved to be one of the most significant MMA events in history. A piece of MMA history aired out of the blue on Thursday night, when Showtime Extreme, with little if any advanced publicity, broadcast the first-ever Strikeforce MMA show from March 10, 2006.Not only was it the d read news >>

The UFC hopes to do hold a MMA event in a soccer stadium in Brazil one day, but it won’t be the first promotion to do it. Shooto Brazil 52 is expected to take place at the Joaquim Americo Guimaraes stadium, also known as Arena da Baixada, on Dec. 5. Shooto officials have yet to officially announce the deal, but G3 United, responsible for sponsorships and events at the stadium, already is advertising the MMA event on its official website. Arena da Baixada was one of the stadiums to host games dur read news >>

Look ahead to tonight's World Series of Fighting 14 MMA event with predictions for Jake Shields vs. Ryan Ford and more. There's no UFC this weekend but that doesn't mean there isn't big time MMA action on your television. If you've got NBC Sports on your cable channel you can catch World Series of Fighting 14: Ford vs. Shields tonight at 9 p.m. ET live from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It's a four fight main card so without further hoo-ra here are quick previews & predictions. For more in-depth an read news >>

When the Tulsa-based Battleground group decided to try pay-per-view based on the concept of going back in time with an eight-man one-night tournament, it was an interesting concept, but former UFC owner Bob Meyrowitz had done the same thing years ago with the one-and-done YAMMA promotion, using fighters with more name value.So the hook for selling the show, for the first time in the history of MMA, was the announcers. It was the meeting of the minds between Jim Ross, the voice of the heyday of p read news >>

Make your pick for the best MMA event from the first half of 2014 in Bloody Elbow's Half Year Awards. Technically, we're about a month over the half-year mark, but with live MMA on TV every other minute, it's hard to fit something like this in when you have to cover the non-stop facepunching. Tim Burke used to run the Bloody Elbow half-year and year-end MMA awards, but he stepped down from the site to focus on selling expensive real estate in New York City. The Bloody Elbow staff compiled a mass read news >>

File this one under "close call." It's not uncommon to hear the phrase "dropping bombs" at a mixed martial arts (MMA) event. But it's not supposed to be taken literally. Unfortunately, a deranged lunatic had more than just ground-and-pound on his mind when he planned a suicide bombing at the upcoming M-1 Challenge 49: "Battle in the Mountains 3" event, which is expected to take place on June 7, 2014, in Dzheirakh, Ingushetia. That's according to a report from SovSport.ru (via RG.ru), helpfully t read news >>